Annie Dillard Quotes

I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

I feel like I've spent a lot of time imagining home and thinking about a dream-like place, as opposed to a real place, because that's not what I was able to do, meaning go home or be home.

You can never blame somebody for wanting to go home.

I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

You're always homesick. There's always something about home that's special. But I'm not a things person. I'm not attached to my things.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting